he had none he was certain of. He mentioned that the object was manned by "beings of some kind" but was being somewhat "tongue-in-cheek" as he was only certain of what he saw, not what it was.Ernie Evennett, a trader saw a UFO that same night (26/6) from across the bay. When he arrived at Boianai on 27/6 he was asked by natives, "Taubada" (pigeon English for Sir)", did you see the American Air Force last night? We did at Boianai."So clearly Boianai natives and Gill were still entertaining "the American" visitation idea, but he was open to the ET idea, but still not totally certain.With the night of 27/6 the "visitation" idea was verified in Gill's mind. He now no longer had any doubt of the "visitation" being real. He had his notes, he had his witnesses and plenty of others had seen things. He still wasn't prepared to say they were alien.He was soon back in Australia and gave a lecture to the Victorian Flying Saucer Research Society on October 28, 1959, of which I have a full transcript. He had also said similar things to the ABC TV: "I accept the possibility of life on other planets.... But I've no theory, merely because I haven't had time to think about it."This was pretty much where he stood publicly for the rest of his life. He certainly believed in what he saw, it was real and it was a visitation by someone, of what he was never sure. His religious sensibilities harboured another possibility beyond ET, the Americans, and he kept this largely to himself. However this theory, and it was only a theory he would explore and think about a lot, it "came out" in his last lecture on 14th June 2003. I recorded his presentation. At the end he said, somewhat I thought in "tongue-in-check" but I suspect he was floating his idea that he had researched. What were they? He looked for something he had found. "This is the punchline" he said, what they might be. He then described the story of cosmonauts in space seeing "angels" - very large "men", glowing light, etc. So that was what he put forward as an idea. The evidence see this Pravda report, which described what had been rumoured and mentioned for years since it was alleged to have happened in 1985:For Rev Gill I think while he couldn't prove it, so he did not present it forcefully, it was an explanation that did not seriously confront his religious thoughts. As far as I know this was the closest he came to saying this, that maybe the Boianai "visitants" were "angels", perhaps "angels" to him, "aliens" to others, but certainly real, certainly "visitants" - a term preserved by Randolph Stow in his novel "Visitants" - which opens with a prologue referring to the sightings.
So thats it, my understanding of the evolution of Bill Gill's thoughts on his sighting. Not really belief, but anchored in fact, and apparently privately mediated by his faith. But he put that out there as just an idea for thinking about. Perhaps the glowing "radiance sparking, etc that surround the "men" and the object led him privately in that direction. Publicly "aliens", "Americans" or "aliens", he did not know, but he was certain of what he saw.
